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title: ‘Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked! — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked! A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 148

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‘Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked!

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**What happens:** spank · **To what, where:** manners

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2781:9:148
# text = ‘Small-person-with-no-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	spanked	spank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spank** | ought · passive |  | no manners |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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